Dr.S.Shamasundar is the founder and managing trustee. Dr.S.Shamasundar has his PhD in mechanical engineering. Managing Director of PROSIM. Through these companies he is working with corporate majors (such as GE, GM, Delphi Auto systems, Tatas, etc.,) in USA, Europe, Japan, Germany and India.
Earlier, Dr.S.Shamasundar has worked in Imperial College, London; Drexel University- Philadelphia; Wright-State University, Dayton; Materials Research Lab- Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton; UES-Inc, and Systran Corporation in USA. He has written more than 25 research papers in international journals on process modeling applications to different manufacturing activities. He has edited proceedings of 3 international workshops in the areas of materials processing, process modeling, and computer simulation.
Dr.Shamasundar has been involved in different social activities, for more than 25 years. Especially active with training of students. He is a trained YOGA teacher and is keenly interested in classical music, theater and literature.
Dr.R.Nagaraj is one of the trustees. Dr.Nagaraj has PhD in electrical engineering. He is currently managing director of Power Research Development Corporation and PRDC InfoTech. He has written more than 15 research papers in different journals. Dr. Nagaraj has good understanding of Sanskrit and Indian Scriptures. He has worked as honorary secretary of the Sanskrit Sangha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Dr. (Mrs.) Alaka Acharya, is a MD in clinical pathology, and runs a consulting clinic. Dr.Alaka Acharya is involved in the alternative approaches to healing, apart from her conventional medical practice. She is also associated with some of the women’s self help groups.
YUGAYATRI has a board of advisors to guide the activities comprising scholars, lawyers, retired govt. officials and judges.
A partial list of YUGAYATRI advisory board & faculty :
1] Prof. Mahadevan, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, is a teacher and researcher in management for last 20 years. He specializes in manufacturing management. Prof. Mahadevan has worked as a visiting faculty of different management schools in USA and as consultant to different companies in USA.
2] Justice Rama Jois is a retired Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana State High Courts, and Ex-Governer of Bihar & Jharkhand States. He is known for his democratic values and for his knowledge of traditional systems. The Supreme Court of India uses his books as the reference material in many complicated judgments relating duties and rights of common people. He is a President of Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan.
3] Dr.Shatavadhani R. Ganesh, Is a faculty in International Centre for Creative Teaching. He has his MS in engineering and his PhD in Sanskrit. He is the grand master of the traditional literary art form of ancient India called shatavadhana in which about 100 persons pose critical questions / challenges including instant composing of poetry on a specific topic in a particular meter. He has written 23 books and more than 600 articles. Dr. Ganesh has a good understanding of the Indian knowledge systems. Dr Ganesh is a real polymath with strong hold on more than 14 languages including the classic western languages like Greek & Latin. Is the youngest one to get Rajyotsava award.
4] N.V.Raghuram is the international coordinator and Yoga trainer in Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (SVYASA), Bangalore INDIA. He teaches Yogasanas, Pranayama, Dhyana, cure for ailments like arthritis, asthma, stress management along with a full theoretical yogic and scientific background explained through lectures. Sri Raghuram of SVYASA has trained under some of the most renowned exponents of Yoga in India and has been practicing Yoga for more than 20 years. He has traveled to several countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore and conducted Yoga therapeutic and corrective courses (for ailments such as bronchitis, asthma, back ache, eating disorders, sleep disorders etc). At Bangalore, he is involved in training certified Yoga instructors and also in assisting various Ph.D. students in their intensive research on Yoga and related subjects.
5] M P Kumar, Kumar is the founder, Chairman & CEO of Global Edge Software. Since the inception of Global Edge Software as Srujana Technologies in 1992, he has been the driving force behind this organization. He has been instrumental in expanding GESL operations to an organization with over 300 professionals on board. Kumar has a Masters Degree from Bangalore University and has over 15 years of experience in the IT Industry.
6] Dr H. R. Nagendra, a former space scientist at NASA, returned to his native India, changing, as he says, from engineering to human engineering “in search of truth.” Dr. Nagendra established the internationally famous Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation (or V K YOGAS) which has been renamed Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana (sVYASA).
7] Anant R Koppar is a President, MphasiS Technologies, Anant R Koppar realised a dream he’d long harbored when he founded – the employee-owned Kshema technologies in 1997 along with two other technocrats. Today, he has successfully merged Kshema with MphasiS BFL and now spearheads MphasiS Technologies. Prior to this he was with reputed organizations like Kshema Technologies, BFL Software, Wipro and Tata Elxsi. A university topper and a brilliant engineer, Koppar has to his merit a Masters Degree in Technology in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Certified as “Project Management Professional” by PMI, Koppar was the first CEO in India to get the certification.
8] Dr R. Nagarathna, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK) combines a strong clinical background in internal medicine with extensive research and clinical practice using yoga therapy to dramatically improve the conditions of patients suffering from disorders such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, stress and anxiety disorders and more. Dr. Nagarathna is the head of a 150-bed residential yoga therapy hospital. Her research has resulted in more than 50 publications in medical and scientific journals. In addition, she has co-authored ten books. Dr. Nagarathna is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts in yoga therapy.
9] Narasimha Prabhu is a Senior VP – Technical of Global Edge Software Prabhu has extensive R&D experience in Telecom domain. He has over 17 years of industry experience & was founder of iNabling Technologies. He has also worked on development of 30,000 line central office, tandem switching system, VoIP, SAN & access devices. He is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from the University of Mysore. Apart from having completed his Masters in Technology from IIT, Mumbai, he also holds a Diploma in Management from All India Management Association. Also got an in-depth knowledge in many facets of Indian culture and traditions.
10] Prof. K.I. Vasu is a retired professor of Metallurgy at Indian Institute of Science. He was also the director of Central Electrochemical Research Institute, a CSIR lab (federal labs in India). He has guided several Research students and edited and published a large number of research articles and books. He is the recipient of several awards.
11] Mr. Vivek Halbe is an architect and runs an architectural consulting firm. He has been developing theme parks based on traditional Indian architecture. One such is Nritya Grama (a dance village) near Bangalore, which was founded by the famous Kathak Dancer (Ms) Protima Bedi. Vivek combines tradition, art and style in his creations of form and space.
12] Hosahalli Subramanya, PhD Head, Structure-Guided Drug Design Dr Subramanya received his PhD from IISc, Bangalore, and was a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department Molecular Biophysics and Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, UK. Hosahalli was an Assistant Director at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow before joining Aurigene.
13] Sri V Nagaraj, is a social worker and has got a indepth knowledge in scientific heritage of our land. Has given many talks to both Indian and abroad audience on the topic. His articles are published in ‘Encyclopedia of Britannica’. Nagaraj is a office bearer of Mythic Society and Gokhale Institute of Public affairs, a well known institutions for research, publication and documentation related to Indian literary and heritage. He has successfully conducted many national and international events.